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At the time he arretted Mr. McGil'ivray and the other partners of th^i Nort-i West Coiupany, then at that place, he also arrested one Daniel McKenzie, a Retired wintering partner of that association who was particularly obnoxious to his Lordihip, from being ac- cused by himi of h:;ving endeavoretl to excite the In^ diatpo. X' 4ians of F<»nd-dii-Lac to attack his pretended colnh^i jip^,acjf^itic)a to ,t,lie ^ther accusations falsely made^ y^bvi^' in ^c vy as included* One would suppose, that m impartial magistrate, under such circunr^tances, ^niM no aypid ^ending him.; Daniel McKenzie, down tor tyialy if he^ sent the others v but qu«te the contrary took place ^ ^nr public considerations are with his iiord^hip ot no nionaenty unless he can warp or apply them to promote some personal or selk* interested ob- ject. i^ Observing after the general arrrst, that this Daniel' M^Kenzie was a man of weak mind, who had aban- doned Kimself to liquor, he instantly saw, that he might by a nrixture of terror and intrigue^ be Werke<( up«m, £0 as to be m ade favorable to his Lord8h}p'# vtei^. Accordingly (after the other prisoners were; sent ofF) he was detained, put into close confinement^ fiirnlshtd with the means tif intemperance^' and at his WidiinteFvalsr plyed by his LordshipV creaturesi. Matt hey , D'orsennons, Doctor Allan, and Miles Mc«' Donell, who were sent to him in succession, to hold . the same language ; that the North West Company M:Cre jcompletely ruined ; that he, Daniel McKenzie^^* inus^ infallibly lose all the property he had in that conceirn^ or that wasowing to him bytheagents, unless, hs nom 4id spmethi|)g to propitiate Lord Selkirk, who ^ had it^e power qf bringing him to an ignominious.; publlP trial ftpr his lifq, or of releasing lum therefrom^ ". ai^d aayi^g hi^ money, aecGrdingly as he ought now act ^ toyiyi^si ;hi$ Lordship* ,; ^utm jjii^ ir.uroiq S)Um*^4».2>uii tjj»^ InoJ iifi v'J sww t>i>t--.ffi »i"3'i*i- :r-t)«.»b Ui'niy'i ••«<•:.'■»/: ^ ■I * tt was also repeatedly hinted to fiim, ttiat fts a paH^ |)er, he hadthe meant of conciliating his Lordship»an4 fecuri^g hinnself, by selling to him the Noiih Y/%it property at Fort William, or elsewhere ;out of whidh hecc>itld first pay himself, and handover the residue to tho.^e who might have a legal right to it. By dint cf repetition, these doctrines gaiised ground with Dij- niel, v^ ho was now informed that the propoSitiohi must »rmc from him to his Lordsbi p« • This nt farious plot, fo imworthy of a Peer, and a inan being ihu^ f^t in a hopeful train, a paper was dictated t<;him, to be written to his Lordships as^tUcfi iiiitiaic-ry step» and his con6nement was now rdaxedy-. but tQ viAS never lost sight of by one or other of |h«t myrmidons employed en the occasion, and not suffbr* ed t'^ converse with any ot the North West CUtkSk* This paperis a most curious one, being worded as if< It had been the composition of himself, and is fitU o£' repetition amended by Mtlen McDonell, and alter*;; wards copied by Daniel* ;' Upon his Lordship's receipt of thi? production, thb' negocianon was developed, and papers npon papei'sC sent to Daniel, or dictated to him, were copied, attd ^ amendments upon amendments to some of them made by Miles McDonell in his h^nd wrltiiig, and s6ttie e** ' yen in that of his Lordship ; happily some of dies©" precious documents^ so amended, were left with Da* ■ niel (which ^8 a matter ot astonishment) and farffish irrefragable proof of - / ih^ g the anpea*ance of validity; th're is no reciprocity ; all are stipulations, where the one gives, and the orh r rec ivcs tne v hole be nefit. It is true the honfst Dan'tet (not Nathaniel J receives fifty gviincas in hand, to nati the bargain, and his Lordship, as a further considera* ti tn, i' to convey an estate ot three t'ousand pounisa year, but whether in the moon, or else where Is net said. There is another trifling difficulty about the validity of these honest men't doings, Daniel had no power or right to transfer ; no not to sell to any other than a , member of the Company, even his own interest in it as a retired partner. 'I here is also a special clause in the articles of copartnership and agreement, respecting the^«zi;^rx of wintering partners, w^/V^ are confined to the trade of their own department or post, with In> dians, and all acts by them, (;f a general nature, are prohibited and mads^ competent only to the acknow- ledgsd agency who alone can make purchases or saleE» for the concern at large. His Lordship knew all this, for by the previous wholesale robbery at F jrt Wil- liam, he became possessed of all the books and papers ot the Company, and amongst them one of the ori- ginal copies of tne Sitid rrticles, whicn he had most / dishonestly and dis.ionorably pryed into, and read; But were it otherwise, what man ot common sense or hone'jty, would nr.aintain the monstrous proposition, that a person holding a small inf^rest with limited powers (or propeily speaking, no powers, he having ' retired) in an extensive concern, where the copart- ners are numcra::s, could, by his separate act, transfer not only a portion of the general property, fiity fold be- 8 fond his o#n share in it» but expressly intended fd tdestroy Mich general concern, and its interests, in or- 4(r totraisfer the sameto » rival, who had on the very face of the papers, bribed the vendor into the conventions. A collusion of two parties to deeds to defraud other persons, who so far from bc'ing consulted, had a direct interest in opposition to the bare-taccd fraud attempted to be imposed upon them, was never more elearly ma<» nifest ; or more devoid of every attribute to consU* tute validity, than in the present case» It is to me astonishing, how any man of sane mind# COiUd think to impose upon cthc s a belief, that sue! t wholesale swindle c ^uld be sustained, or have a par* ticle of effitacy m covering or lessening the turpitudf of the means, by which Lord Selkirk possessed him-^ 6eif of Fort William, and the property «b attemptel to be conveyed to him. What would be thought in England of his Lordship^ had he purchased there from a small proprietor or share holder in the Phoenix fire Office, or in any b- ther unchartered company in that country, not only bis own interest therein, bit the whole property of the concern, to be transferred to him as a rival, in direct opposition to the constitution, ot such concern, and to defraud the other proprietors ? Would he dare to sup- port the legality of such a purchase i in numerous associations, none but .directors, ma« nagers. nigers, or agenu, Ht Is immatslia! what ippelbrlna they adoi'.t) c^n do the b iiMcss ->t sue' ass(/ciat?<'*rtsf'; and the Agents ot the Norih West Com -ny Vv^t^, from its original iormationi p«bUckty Iciiown tihd re- cognized, as the only executive representatives of' t*h^t concern. .» , His Lordship's ttirpltude does not even rest Ker^. He sent Miles McDontll Vi request Daniel to wi'itc letters to one Roderick McKenzie, and no the part-, ners and clerks of the North West Coini^ny in the interior, to advice them to carry the p.icks, whicfi tjiey may trade this winter, to H^ids-^n'i; Bay next sprik (^j (from whence thev might finJ a passage to England) in order to indemnify thrmFelves, a^'^tiVe IJorth West Company, (sayu he) i^^ totally ruiried. Enq,'jlring afterwards if such letien had been writ- ten, and. finding not, his Lordship desiral that their names might be given to Miles McDonell, who coii'ii write iti Daniel's name. Daniel rec rnm^nded to the Clerks, ^nd even tovtintering partners of that Com- pany, t)y his Lordship's drsire, to fjlio^ his cri-lers, as ^he only way of ingratiatinij themselves with him, to save them from ruin« ' Nay, to such a 'jiitchof ishameless an.! unpTinripted siudacity lias hi"* Lordship gone in the^e tnnduleni proceedings, that D.^.nitl was made to vyrite to Cuth- bcrt Grant, a hulf breed at the Red River, (', ne' of those, for the an,;st (J. whom wairmts signed by^his Lordship had !a't,spTiig l-een sent tn Mi Semple, ivith directions to be exicuted oniyin cfaiethat-shey •» B wculi m would not come over to his Lords>ip's views) againif whom Lord Selkirk wis most indignant and vindic«^ tSve^ as having been with the escort or band who re*i sisted the unprovoked attack made upon them lasT Junei by Mr Semple and his people, when he, and* Diany of them unhappily fell victims to their temerity> and aggression* nojn^vm tu. :o!jno :;3& ^^oopj^oiq vne> His Lotdship made Daniel leave an opening t<9 this Cut hbert Grant for pardon and oblivion of aH^ if he would turn now and support hU interests \ add^ ingbyway of bait or salvo, that his Lofdship wal Induced to this, from Grant having exerted ' himself^ Although ineffectually 9 to save Mr Semple^s life. ^ ' % t'f tiioU r«ji3 l^erty;, and dispossess ttie clerk, was to follow* Hert; again the Jtddari Code is his rule* First do the act^ «nd find an authority for so doing at leisure: thti ^lerk and people were laid hold of, and sent away to Fort William, but the legal authority fa to b« found only in the will of this s&if>styled Sovereign Lord of ^skiniboia.: ■.■s-.r % ,10 'j.-spA | ^b i^n-iif'^i u si .^zitiiT- •■ ;j> ( -" % He and his people are living upon the . prbvislont $nd means found by him at Fort William, beiorging So the North West Company ; which, if he pusses^^ led the common feelings of our nature, I should think IvouUl occasionally stick in his throat, as the fruiti of dishonesty. 6 Ali. a a.v.if.JrCiV/i'^him )i'^iiHti V^ To add to his ether feats, he has resisted a legal warrant served upon him and his officers in due form. Which war I ant was granted by a Justice of Peace fot the Western District of Upper Canada, upon affida* vits regularly made before him, he being a magistrate, \ttnder tt:e like appointment, and with the same au-* thority, by which his Lordship has issued his i^ • r- faats at Fort William. This Magistrate has this U B2 tuosr 12 -.•' mcst essential superiority over his Lordship, that he had no interest whatever dependant upon the i:^s«c of the warrant so granted ; whereas all his Lordship's warrants were issti^d Hn hh oUftttause, and for his own beiicfe"---^::i-&^„w™. vnew -ri-j?»s5«Rtj.sn,gsir4*i',-%^i^ i»^^ "irr-i S^H!"' The above statements are substantially artd literalw' ly eWrr^ct, ' srtid'st^pportea'tfprh testifntT^iVj whiclKiio artifice or quibble can overthrpiiV- tunity he had as a freeman, after geftln?^' buT'tif^ liis Lordship's clutches, where he appj;eheQdcd his lifeto be in danger^ was to go voluntanl'V to thT-*^»t«g is • j The last accounts left th Lordship and band ^i^ctr^ pied In m'^ling a road from Fort William towards the American frontier, ptobahlv in contemplation ot en- deavoring to remove in the spring the extensive plun- der he Eias acquired. - • MERCATOR,. Montreal, 5i.h Feb. i8j7« r ^ ■^-i^-. -ii^«? tT'^^^sy^'^rr^fT^'r^. I ! T